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6583348 Server for use in rating of music contents  
A server apparatus is provided for conducting an evaluation of a music piece with an external terminal apparatus. In the apparatus, a communication unit is used to exchange information with the...
6572381 Computer system and karaoke system  
A computer system includes storage device for storing a plurality of object files, each file including a program and information on the genre of music, and said computur system selecting an object...
6570080 Method and system for supplying contents via communication network  
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for making sample contents from music contents whereby server and user are connected with each other via a communication network, whereby...
6555737 Performance instruction apparatus and method  
Pictures of a predetermined musical instrument, such as a drum set, and a model player are displayed, so as to visually indicate, in accordance with a progression of performance, which musical...
6555738 Automatic music clipping for super distribution  
A method of sampling a music selection to produce a music clipping suitable for super distribution. A computer readable music file is sampled by defining a starting point for the sample at a fixed...
6548747 System of distributing music contents from server to telephony terminal  
In an information service system whereby a server apparatus distributes music performance data to a telephony terminal apparatus through a network, the telephony terminal apparatus includes a...
6545209 Music content characteristic identification and matching  
A system and methods for matching media entities to associate closely related media entities are provided. In connection with a system that convergently merges perceptual and digital signal...
6541689 Inter-track communication of musical performance data  
A music generation system includes a segment manager and a plurality of segment objects. Each segment object has one or more track objects. Each track object containing a time sequence of musical...
6541691 Generation of a note-based code  
A method for generating accompaniment to a musical presentation, the method comprising steps of providing a note-based code representing musical information corresponding to the musical...
6534701 Memory card with music performance function  
A functional storage module is removably connectable to an electronic apparatus as a storage medium of data. The module is composed of a memory core block, a sequencer block and a tone generator...
6527639 Game system with musical waveform storage  
A game system includes: a waveform data storage device for storing waveform data of waveform pattern indicating tone varying in time-series; a game controller for executing a game based on a game...
6525253 Transmission of musical tone information  
A musical tone information transmitting apparatus that can efficiently transmit musical tone information comprises: a device for inputting musical tone information; a plurality of processing units...
6519567 Time-scale modification method and apparatus for digital audio signals  
A time-scale modification method or apparatus performs time-scale modification (i.e., compression or expansion with respect to time) on original audio signals having waveforms. Adjacent wave...
6515212 Recording/reproduction system of music data, and music data storage medium  
An information medium configured to record, as a file, music contents which contain audio-compressed music data distributed from a music distribution system. In the system, music data obtained by...
6509519 Method and apparatus for generating musical tone waveforms by user input of sample waveform frequency  
A method and apparatus for generating musical tones are provided. Musical tones are generated based on musical tone waveform samples generated through a plurality of channels, and performance...
6506969 Automatic music generating method and device  
The invention concerns a music generating method which consists in: an operation defining musical moments during which at least four notes are capable of being played, for example, bars or...
6504089 System for and method of searching music data, and recording medium for use therewith  
A music search system easily operable by a user to search for a musical piece with accuracy, a method for operating the system, and a recording medium for use with the system. A plurality of music...
6501011 Sensor array MIDI controller  
A MIDI controller musical instrument ( 80 ) with buttons ( 34 ) on two sensorboards ( 54,56 ) for controlling musical notes. The buttons ( 34 ) are arranged such that the most harmonious note...
6489549 Electronic device with multiple sequences and methods to synchronize them  
The present invention relates to an electronic device composed of two or more conventional sequencers of conventional type that implement elaborate timed sequences of events, such as musical songs...
6479740 Digital reverse tape effect apparatus  
A method for the simulation of a realistic reverse tape effect, in real time, comprising the steps of detecting the beginning of a note by monitoring the input audio signal to determine when the...
6476305 Method and apparatus for modifying musical performance data  
A data modifying apparatus having: a memory that stores modification data for modifying data; a detecting unit for detecting each data group from performance data, the data group being unable to be...
6476304 Information processing system with graphical user interface controllable through voice recognition engine and musical instrument equipped with the same  
A musical instrument is computerized for electronically generating tones, and an information processing subsystem assists users selectively to change the attributes of the tones, wherein the...
6476307 Method of compressing, transferring and reproducing musical performance data  
Music-performance data is separated into at least note-number data, musical note-velocity data, musical note-length data and other necessary data. A primary encoded code is formed in which the...
6476306 Method and a system for recognizing a melody  
The invention relates to a method for recognizing a melody from a set of stored melodies. In the method, an audio sample representing the melody to be recognized is produced to form a first search...
6462263 Information recording medium and reproducing apparatus therefor  
An information recording medium and an information recording medium reproducing apparatus in which a plurality of kinds of character string information can be sorted and displayed from character...
6452083 Incremental sequence completion system and method  
The present invention relates to a method designed to be used to compute music sequences in all possible contexts and situations, including: Internet adaptive radio, Digital Audio Broadcasting...
6448487 Moving tempered musical scale method and apparatus  
A musical instrument and a method of operating it. An instrument and method which retunes and adjusts volumes in response to the chord being sustained and the way that chord is voiced. The...
6448484 Method and apparatus for processing data representing a time history  
A method and apparatus for processing data representing a time history of a sonic waveform. A portion of the data is processed to determine a beat frequency by performing a transformation from the...
6448485 Method and system for embedding audio titles  
A system and method for embedding audio titles is presented. Information encoded in a format is received about an audio program. The information is transformed into an audio signal conveying an...
6444888 Musical computer keyboard apparatus and method  
An apparatus and method to change the mode of computer keyboard use from alpha-numeric language orientation to become a musical input keyboard where the keys change meaning for this purpose is...
6446073 Methods for writing and reading compressed audio data  
A method for writing compressed audio data to a compact disc media is provided. The method includes selecting songs to be written in a session and reserving a first track. After the first is...
6441291 Apparatus and method for creating content comprising a combination of text data and music data  
Supplied text data set is classified into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with the substance of the supplied text data set, and a musical composition data set is selected or...
6437228 Method and apparatus for storing audio data  
When audio data are to be stored into a large-capacity memory such as a hard disk device, a shared storage section is set in the memory so as to be used both for storing audio data of one or more...
6437227 Method for recognizing and selecting a tone sequence, particularly a piece of music  
The invention relates to methods for recognizing and for selecting a tone sequence, particularly a piece of music, which permit a user to request a particular piece of music by singing a section of...
6433266 Playing multiple concurrent instances of musical segments  
A musical performance is generated by a segment object and a plurality of constituent track objects. Multiple segment instances can be played concurrently by instantiating multiple state objects...
6423893 Method and system for electronically creating and publishing music instrument instructional material using a computer network  
A system and method that allows an on-line user of a wide area network to remotely author and publish instructional material for musical instruments for the purposes of dissemination to other...
6424944 Singing apparatus capable of synthesizing vocal sounds for given text data and a related recording medium  
A text analyzing section converts given text data into syllable data. A melody producing section receives the converted syllable data together with the text data and a standard MIDI file. The...
6417435 Audio-acoustic proficiency testing device  
An audio—acoustic proficiency test method transduces, captures, measures, compares, analyzes, records, and reports on the actual performance of at least one performer's produced orderly sound...
6407326 Electronic musical instrument using trailing tone different from leading tone  
In an electronic musical apparatus having a generator for generating a tone, a play member is provided for playing a music such that a key-on touch operation and a key-off touch operation are...
6403870 Apparatus and method for creating melody incorporating plural motifs  
A plurality of melody motifs are provided to be incorporated in a melody to be created. The melody motifs are allotted and located at a plurality of positions along the length of a melody to be...
6392132 Musical score display for musical performance apparatus  
A musical score display apparatus installed in an electronic musical instrument such as a player piano is designed to automatically display and change over images of electronic musical score data...
6392134 Apparatus and method for generating auxiliary melody on the basis of main melody  
Given melody notes are classified into particular notes and other notes than the particular notes in accordance with a predetermined criterion. Additional notes are decided with respect to the...
6384310 Automatic musical composition apparatus and method  
Through an operation by a user, a setting is made, for each partial musical section in a music piece, as to whether or not music piece data should be generated. In accordance with the setting, a...
6380473 Musical instrument equipped with synchronizer for plural parts of music  
An electronic synchronizer sequentially reads out multi-track music data codes selectively assigned to an automatic player piano and an electronic sound generating system and already stored cue...
6377530 System and method for playing compressed audio data  
A portable audio player stores a large amount of compressed audio data on an internal disk drive, and loads a portion of this into an internal random access memory (RAM) which requires less power...
6372974 Method and apparatus for sharing music content between devices  
A digital music player. The player includes a memory capable of storing music files. The player has a user interface allowing a user to select and access the music files. A port on the player...
6372973 Musical instruments that generate notes according to sounds and manually selected scales  
Musical instruments that generate notes according to sounds (e.g., vocal sounds) and manually selected scales are provided. Vocal sounds of the user are analyzed to select a note that will be...
6365814 Electronic musical instrument and recording medium  
In an electronic musical instrument having a function to perform auto-playing with reading out a quantity of auto-play data every time any key is operated, a guide display comprising a plurality of...
6365819 Electronic musical instrument performance position retrieval system  
The present invention relates to a performance position retrieval system that is installed in such things as electronic musical instruments. Its object is to enable rapid and more accurate...
6355871 Automatic musical performance data editing system and storage medium storing data editing program  
A musical performance data editing system having an edition designating unit for designating an edition position and edition contents, an edition range determining unit for determining an edition...